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’21st-century South African politics are all about racial nationalisms’
Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Opinion, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan, South Afrika
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Nonsense which will bring disaster to SA
South Africa has a history of being undemocratic, rooted in the white supremacism which fostered colonialism and then apartheid. And this is what Moeletsi Mbeki and Johann Rossouw appeal to in their article “Many nationalisms still cripple SA”.
Despite the title, the article is not about the crippling effects of nationalism. It is an attack on the ANC, not merely for bad leadership, but for the entire anti-apartheid struggle. Drawing heavily on the reactionary analysis of the likes of Hermann Giliomee and John Kane-Berman, Mbeki and Rossouw insist that 21st-century South African politics are all about racial nationalisms.
Undeniably, both colonialism and apartheid were driven by white racial nationalism. But the ANC was always driven by a desire to resist the oppressive consequences of white racism.
Conspicuously, anti-white political organisations, like the Pan Africanist Congress and the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo), never gained a mass following.
DARK PAST: SA has a history of being undemocratic, rooted in white supremacism which fostered colonialism and apartheid Picture: GALLO/GETTY
This spurious racialisation of South African political history seems intended to erase the crimes of colonialism and apartheid – by pretending that racist tyranny and the struggle against racist tyranny were equivalent. Once the anti-apartheid struggle is discredited, Mbeki and Rossouw can claim, baselessly, that the chief force for the ending of apartheid was the white business community in South Africa.
Then Mbeki and Rossouw announce that blacks have misruled South Africa ever since taking over. Supposedly, the ANC has destroyed South Africa’s social and physical infrastructure. The party, Mbeki and Rossouw hint, were only able to do this because they were allied with the English – echoing the Afrikaner ethnic psychoses of those such as Dan Roodt.
What has happened, in fact, is that South Africa’s infrastructure, designed to serve the white minority, is inadequate to serve the majority, and there was neither the time nor the money to build a new one.
Mbeki and Rossouw can only get away with their lie by erasing apartheid, which refused to provide adequate infrastructure for the black population.
Why should they want to do this? This is where the abandonment of faith in democracy comes in, entwined here with a deep-seated racism. According to Mbeki and Rossouw, blacks are unruly and need to be controlled. Since black politicians are incompetent to control them, whites must do so.more Live
This article reveals a lot of ignorance about the difference between economics and wishful thinking. It claims the infrastructure was designed to serve the white majority and there has not been time to bring it up to the place blacks are served equally. This is true in the sense the country was indeed not wealthy enough for all to live at the same level as whites, but it was not a case of whites making it so at the expense of blacks as implied. The fact is the education, technical skills and work ethic of blacks was such that they were not able to contribute to the economy in a fashion that raised the countries wealth so that they got a larger share, and thus the larger share went to the most productive class, no differently than why the poor in India, Asia or any where else are poor. The fact is if were merely the desire of the ruling class that increased the standard of living of the poor, the black ruling class has had perhaps 20 years to make things better for the poor and instead things are going backwards for the poor. So the theory the ANC hasn’t had time to bring black wealth to the standard of white welth falls apart when one recognizes it can never happen when even the direction is wrong. This economic reality is again a function of the lower skills set of the current managers and since that isn’t going to change the only thing this new class of governors can do to appease the crowd over their own failure it to blame whitey.
“blacks are unruly and need to be controlled. Since black politicians are incompetent to control them, whites must do so.” Pretty much sums it up.
The unfortunate situation in SA is a direct result of the British-Boer war many decades ago. The British were the typical European colonialists, building cities and forging a good life for themselves. African poured in to work while under the constraints of British rule. The Boers were basically religious farmers who treated everyone more than fairly and believed in blind equality. The Boers defeated the British and that set the stage for an accelerated swing to black rule.